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By Queuebot in Science & Tech, Video Clips on May 3, 2009 at 3:09 pm



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Most people know that inhaling helium will make your voice sound like Donald Duck, but what gas will make you sound like Darth Vader? 

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  1. Miss Cellania
    May 3rd, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    That would be hexafluoride!

    http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/09/jay-leno-inhaled-anti-helium/

    http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/15/inhaling-sodium-hexafluoride/

    which has other lovely properties

    http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/11/hexafluorid/

  2. MrPumpernickel
    May 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    Yeah, that's entirely right, Darth Vader sounded just like that. Uh huh!

    *slaps forehead*

  3. Jeremy
    May 3rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    MrPumpernickel must be fun at parties.

  4. phatty
    May 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    this was posted before...

  5. Ali S.
    May 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    @ MrPumpernickel

    Oh don't be such a Debby Downer. ;)

  6. renderanything
    May 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Don't try this at home is just an invitation for me to find a local supplier of the gas. Now I will finally be the life of the party, yesssss.

  7. LisaL
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Rofl... that was pretty hilarious.

  8. stephen
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Sounds like Penn Jillette to me.

  9. stephbot
    May 4th, 2009 at 3:51 am

    I... was not expecting that. Hilarious.

  10. Daniel Rosenberg
    May 4th, 2009 at 8:39 am

    He didn't actually fully inhale, or his voice would have been a lot lower.

    Two fun facts about SF6:

    As a greenhouse gas, it is 22,000 times more potent than CO2. The amount he released is equivalent to a ton of CO2. So what.

    On a more immediate, personal note, SF6 can hurt you two ways. It is an asphyxiant which will collect in low spots. And the impurities in SF6 are as toxic to breath as fluorine or hydrogen fluoride, so be sure to get the pure stuff to breathe.

  11. tmayton
    May 4th, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    I'm going to geuss sulfur hexafluoride. It's even more interesting when you watch stuff float in it.

  12. cmrr_xxx
    Jun 17th, 2009 at 1:38 am

    Hello !!!
    It's my first post.

    My name is cmrr_xxx.
    I'm working at "ALTERNATIVE DESIGN++" in Japan.

    And I developed a voicechanger inspired by your article.
    Please try it!

    http://bit.ly/Emz5j

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